Chris Bumbray

Editor-in-Chief - JoBlo

6,011 Articles Published

Favorite Movies: Goodfellas, A Clockwork Orange, Boogie Nights, Goldfinger, Casablanca, Scarface (83 version), read more Heat, The Guns of Navarone, The Dirty Dozen, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, Blade Runner, any film noir

Likes: Movies, LP's, James Bond, true hollywood memoirs, The Bret Easton read more Ellis Podcast, every sixties british pop band, every 80s new wave band - in fact just generally all eighties songs, even the really shit ones, and of course, Tom Friggin' Cruise!

Review: Molly’s Game (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A young woman (Jessica Chastain) working for a Hollywood mogul, spins a private poker game for high-stakes players into a multi-million dollar business, putting her in the cross-hairs of the authorities and the mob. REVIEW: MOLLY’S GAME tells the...

Review: The Shape of Water (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A mute cleaning woman (Sally Hawkins) working the graveyard shift at a top secret government installation in the cold war era, befriends an imprisoned sea creature (Doug Jones) being experimented upon by an overzealous agent (Michael Shannon) and a...

Review: Mom and Dad (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: An inexplicable phenomena results in parents being uncontrollably compelled to murder their children. REVIEW: MOM AND DAD marks the solo directorial debut of Brian Taylor, one half of the famous Neveldine/Taylor directorial duo, which brought us such crazed classics...

mother! (TIFF Review)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) restoring her older husband’s (Javier Bardem) decaying home, finds their idyll interrupted by two abrasive house guests (Ed Harris & Michelle Pfeiffer). REVIEW: As far as big studio movies go this year, few are...

Review: The Death of Stalin (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The death of Joseph Stalin creates a power struggle in the Kremlin, with Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor), Nikita Khruschev (Steve Buscemi) and NKVD head Beria (Simon Russell Beale) among those trying to fill the vacuum. REVIEW: After several years occupying...

Review: Papillon (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Henri Charriere (Charlie Hunnam) and his life as an inmate on Devil’s Island, where he meets fellow prisoner Louis Dega (Rami Malek) and plans an escape. REVIEW: PAPILLON is a remake of Franklin J. Schaffner’s...

Review: Suburbicon (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The seamy underbelly of a 1950’s suburban community is unearthed when a home invasion has deadly consequences for a local dad (Matt Damon), his sister-in-law (Julianne Moore) and son. REVIEW: I’ll give SUBRBICON this – it made for a...

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (TIFF Review)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A cardiac surgeon (Colin Farrell) sparks up a friendship with the teen-aged son (Barry Keoghan) of a former patient who died under his watch. Soon, the boy begins ingratiating himself into the doctor’s home life, only to make a...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: The Phantom of the Paradise

Posted 9 years ago

Chris Welcome to The Best Movie You NEVER Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was...